Installation info: See documents...GT Studio confirms this work requires a 13amp supply. ***DO NOT TURN OFF THE WORK MID SEQUENCE***Sensor sits 11.1 cm from the floor. Power supply and controls to the reverse.An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor.The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism. “As it hit the water the fire hissed and the sinking pipe became no more than bubbles. Jim remembered old Sampan, his teeth blackened with betel, who had given him the pipe on the other side of the globe all those years ago; how he’d predicted the fate of that infernal device, saying it would betray him and meet a watery grave. Recalling the image of Sampan only moments later himself accidentally falling off the boat brought Jim to his feet and pointing into the water, the quizzical look on his face changed, his head rolled and from the base of his stomach came a thunderous laugh.” Gavin Turk

Gentleman Jim

Life Sized Automaton

Installation info: See documents...GT Studio confirms this work requires a 13amp supply. ***DO NOT TURN OFF THE WORK MID SEQUENCE***Sensor sits 11.1 cm from the floor. Power supply and controls to the reverse.An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor.The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet. Jolly Jack tar, (union jack) colonialism. “As it hit the water the fire hissed and the sinking pipe became no more than bubbles. Jim remembered old Sampan, his teeth blackened with betel, who had given him the pipe on the other side of the globe all those years ago; how he’d predicted the fate of that infernal device, saying it would betray him and meet a watery grave. Recalling the image of Sampan only moments later himself accidentally falling off the boat brought Jim to his feet and pointing into the water, the quizzical look on his face changed, his head rolled and from the base of his stomach came a thunderous laugh.” Gavin Turk

Automaton

Self-Portrait

Outsider

The Sea

Fool

Masks

Faces

Sculpture

Installation info: See documents... GT Studio confirms this work requires a 13amp supply.  ***DO NOT TURN OFF THE WORK MID SEQUENCE*** Sensor sits 11.1 cm from the floor.  Power supply and controls to the reverse. An electronic waxwork of the artist as a laughing, drunken sailor. The odd sailor is an itinerant vagrant of the high seas trapped like a butterfly in a glass case. Hollow laughter repeating in circular patterns of jerky movement. The seaside freak as free spirit forever doomed to play out the instructions of the operator like a giant puppet.

Installation info: hang framed artwork on suitable wallA screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

Positive Negative A4

Silkscreen ink and diamond dust on paper

Installation info: hang framed artwork on suitable wallA screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

Signatures

Silkscreen

Installation info: hang framed artwork on suitable wall A screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

A bronze cast of a shrivelled, slightly mouldy apple core painted to look real.Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam&rsquo;s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now &ldquo;rotten to the core&rdquo;, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man&rsquo;s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

Original Sin

Painted bronze

Apples

Food

Waste

A bronze cast of a shrivelled, slightly mouldy apple core painted to look real.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

Fright Wig Yellow

Silkscreen ink and metallic paint on canvas

Forgery

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

A small canvas painting of blue and white Breton style stripes reminiscent of the sailor's shirt.

Flag

Diamond dust and acrylic paint on canvas

Acrylic paint and diamond dust on canvas

Flags

Painting

A small canvas painting of blue and white Breton style stripes reminiscent of the sailor's shirt.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in fluorescent green with an image of cracked glass over the top. Displayed in a white box frame.

Green Beuys (Cracked Pain)

Acrylic silkscreen on paper

Beuys

Icons

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in fluorescent green with an image of cracked glass over the top. Displayed in a white box frame.

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in silver on a sky blue background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Silver on Sky Blue Elvis

Elvis

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in silver on a sky blue background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A bronze cast of an apple core painted to look real.Eaten and then thrown away, Turk takes the discarded, shrivelled and dead and gives it new life in the form of miniature painted bronze sculptures. Heavy with the symbolism of an English Eden, these once ripe fruits, alongside their associations with knowledge and temptation, Adam&rsquo;s apple and of course, Eve, have been discarded and tossed away. Now &ldquo;rotten to the core&rdquo;, the fruits of the utopian English garden have become a poisonous symbol of man&rsquo;s fall. Or perhaps they are nothing more ominous than evidence of a healthy diet in which their daily consumption contains the promise to keep the doctor away.

Conscience

A bronze cast of an apple core painted to look real.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a pale blue background.

Fright Wig Pale Blue

Warhol

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on a pale blue background.

Painted blue and white stripes on paper drawing reminiscent of Breton striped sailor shirt.

Sailor Stripe

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Uniform

Work on paper

Painted blue and white stripes on paper drawing reminiscent of Breton striped sailor shirt.

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in the middle of a black, blue and earth orange Union Jack with the silver image of Guevara over painted with cracked glass.

God Save Che Guevara (Cracked)

Revolution

Appropriation

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in the middle of a black, blue and earth orange Union Jack with the silver image of Guevara over painted with cracked glass.

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold cufflinks.

chewing gum cufflinks

Resin & 24 carat gold

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold cufflinks.

A giant egg covered with black rabbit pelt placed on a wood brick plinth in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

Duck Rabbit (Black)

Rabbit pelt, fibreglass and wood

Eggs

Magritte

Animalia

A giant egg covered with black rabbit pelt placed on a wood brick plinth in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

A chrome plated bronze cast of an indented pillow in a pillow case.

Somewhere between sleeping on the streets and the silver clouds

Chrome plated bronze

Clouds

Trompe L'oeil

A chrome plated bronze cast of an indented pillow in a pillow case.

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in silver with diamond dust on a yellow background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Diamond Yellow Elvis

Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust 

A print of the Artist as Elvis Presley in silver with diamond dust on a yellow background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A bronze cast of a small polystyrene cup painted with green smears to resemble the leftover traces of mushy peas.

Peas &amp; Love

Polystyrene

Packaging

A bronze cast of a small polystyrene cup painted with green smears to resemble the leftover traces of mushy peas.

Peas & Love

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold earrings.

Chewing Gum Earrings

Chewing gum cast in resin set into 24 carat gold earrings.

A giant egg covered with white rabbit pelt placed on four solid oak blocks in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

Duck Rabbit

A giant egg covered with white rabbit pelt placed on four solid oak blocks in reference to Meret Oppenheim, Rene Magritte, Constantin Brancusi, Piero Manzoni, Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys.

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on an orange background.

Fright Wig Orange

A print of the artist as Andy Warhol in black on an orange background.

A bronze cast of a wooden chip fork painted to look real.

Just a Chip Fork

A bronze cast of a wooden chip fork painted to look real.

Alchemical Can

Polished 18 carat gold

Rubbish

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in blue on a brown background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Blue on Brown Che

A print of the Artist as Che Guevara in blue on a brown background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A bronze cast of lotus seed head and stem, painted green and brown to resemble the original plant.

Lotus Eater

Lotus

A bronze cast of lotus seed head and stem, painted green and brown to resemble the original plant.

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in silver on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

Silver Negative Beuys

A print of the Artist as Joseph Beuys in silver on a black background. Printed in the style of an Andy Warhol silkscreen.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene chip tray painted to look real with pieces of resin to resemble chip residue. Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray &ndash; alongside with its cousin the burger tray &ndash; a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk&rsquo;s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

Chip Tray

Resin & painted bronze

A bronze cast of a polystyrene chip tray painted to look real with pieces of resin to resemble chip residue. Finding beauty in the trashy and ugly, Turk gives the polystyrene used chip tray – alongside with its cousin the burger tray – a grandiose makeover, transforming rubbish into art in the form of a painted bronze sculpture. The remains of a traditional English dish and cheap street food for the masses, Turk’s chip trays become elegiac and nostalgic relics not just of a hearty meal but a set of cultural values which appear to be rapidly vanishing.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real. Displayed on its side.

Crushed &lsquo;n&rsquo; Fallen

Cups

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real. Displayed on its side.

Crushed 'n' Fallen

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

Fright Wig Pale Yellow

A print of the Artist as Andy Warhol in black on a yellow background.

Odyssey

A screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.

A screen printed black frame on paper leaving a white A4 space to look like a framed blank piece of paper.